Viñátigo has always been a project focused on recovering the identity of our Canarian viticulture around working with local varietals and enhancing their value. However, as of 2017, with our first Wine from a Singular Plot: “Laderas de Teno” in the Valle del Palmar, a new Proyecto de Parcelas Singulares was born. focused on making wines from landscapes, landscapes and plots, which aims to identify tradition and humanity in our viticulture.
Behind Laderas de Teno, in 2021 we present Pino Valois, a very unique rosé, made with Listan Negro grown in traditional vines, which denotes the Portuguese wine-growing influence in the region, a plot located in the area of Icod de los Vinos, with young volcanic soils and a very cool climate, which, in addition to expressing the uniqueness of this plot, is intended to keep alive the memory of the Irish merchant of canaries from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Subsequently, continuing with the development of this new project of "Singular Plots", the search for different terroirs or terroirs throughout the geography of the island led us to arrive here... the place of Maipé in the town of Taganana.
Taganana, a town located in the northeast of the island of Tenerife and with a marked Portuguese influence after the colonization of the islands, could be classified as an island within Tenerife. A remote and forgotten territory due to the difficulty of getting there, connected by royal stone paths with the urban centers until little more than the middle of the last century. This is why the vineyards that are
they find there are very old. Like the entire northern geography of the Anaga Massif, it is traditionally and historically known as an area that produces different wines.
The name Maipé, which is a distortion of Malpaís, is how José Miguel Expósito , the winegrower, and his family know the plot. This is because the vine grows on rocks in the collapse of one of the walls of Monte de Las Vueltas.
When his grandfather acquired the land at the beginning of the last century, among all the landslides and the stones he found a vineyard that he called "the old vine", from which he propagated through "margullidas" or layers. along the terrain. The vineyard is practically entirely cultivated with the Listán Blanco variety and was fermented in concrete and later aged in oak barrels
French for five months.
Anaga, together with the Teno and Adeje Massifs, is one of the three oldest areas of geological origin in Tenerife, which is why its soils are characterized by a high content of evolved red basalt, generally clay, accompanied by high density stones of all sizes. This gives the land the ability to generate fresh wines in a terroir where, normally, without that stony content, we would obtain dense and heavy wines.